Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small flask-shaped fruiting body in certain ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a cup-shaped envelop (or ascocarp) with the margin incurved so as to form a narrow-mouthed cavity, inclosing the fructification of certain fungi, lichens, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
ascocarp shaped like askittle orball , distinguished by a smallpore , theostiole , through which thespores are released one by one whenripe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flask-shaped ascocarp
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : peri– + Greek thēkion, diminutive of thēkē, case; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
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